The Sweet Lillies
8-3-2024
Colorado Showcase Music Series
Village Ice Skating Lawn
Beaver Creek, CO

Source: Line Audio CM4's DFC 8'high, 15' from stage PAS > Tascam X8 (32/48) > Audacity > Flac24

This is about as clean and accurate of an audience recording that I am capable of making with my equipment.  I think it came out fantastic. Bear with me the first minute or so because I wasn't taping sound check and was doing initial levels on the fly, and house music doesn't really help you get there.  But after that, we settle into a nice recording groove.

I would have run a matrix with the permission of the band that they gave, but I don't carry around 50'+ of extra XLR's.  But you should!

Fun family show on a Saturday evening during an art festival with incredible weather and a metric ton of kids playing/dancing/kicking balls/doing kids stufz.

Rig only got hit once by a soccer ball, and a bunch of kids' somersaults.  I had shock mounts so not really noticeable other than my blood pressure- absolutely terrifying as a taper.

Thanks to the band for the performance and the individual chats.  They really are just very cool people who put a big smile on your face.  After the show a bunch of kids came up to Julie with torn off pizza paper plates asking for her autograph.  Very cute.

The Sweet Lilies are:

Julie Gussaroff - Upright bass and vocals;
Becca Bisque - Viola, vocals, and washboard;
Dustin Rohleder - Acoustic guitar and vocals; and
Jones Maynard - Drums.

You can check out where to find them in your town, and/or get some of their music if you can't be at a show, here: https://www.sweetlillies.com/home/#tour

Thanks to Phill Chappelle (sp?) for great FOH sound.

A Team Minturn Militia Recording

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N.B. my last TSL show was in 2018 at VBC, and before that, Agave in support of Jeff Austin Band (RIP, I miss him so much) in 2016.  That was a ripper.  TSL has changed their sound quite a bit since those days, so be open for a new musical approach.

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